• Parabola@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Lots of people don’t know. Just like ctrl+r to substring search your command history in bash.

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      7 months ago

      I seriously pity people who don’t know ctrl+r that is one of the most important tools for productivity on the cli.

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        7 months ago

        And you can hook in fzf to it to get a proper list of previous commands all fuzzy matched!! Oh-my-zsh just requires adding fzf to your plugins list (:

        I survived for years with just https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions which is similarly great, but fills a slightly different role. Just start typing and you’ll see a faded preview of the most recent command matching & u ctrl+f to autocomplete it. Is gr8

        e: clarified what zsh-autosuggest does

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        7 months ago

        I’ve found it’s a bit overrated honestly. Usually, I also need the commands before and after something, so I use history | grep -B N cmd instead

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      7 months ago

      I just got moved to a new team, and my new team lead up arrow spams. I was about to tell him about ctrl-r, but he found his command, and I’m awkward, so I didn’t say anything. Maybe next time.